Merge pull request #49 from saolof/patch-2

Made Constructor work with Symbol input without explicitly specified {T}

Author: ScottPJones

src/base.jl

@@ -113,7 +113,8 @@ end
 
 ShortString{T}(s::ShortString{T}) where {T} = s
 
-ShortString(s::Symbol) where {T} = ShortString{T}(String(s))
+ShortString(s::Symbol) = ShortString(String(s))
+ShortString{T}(s::Symbol) where {T} = ShortString{T}(String(s))
 
 function ShortString{T}(s::ShortString{S}) where {T, S}
     sz = sizeof(s)

test/runtests.jl

@@ -136,6 +136,12 @@ end
 
     @test_throws ErrorException ShortString("foobar", 3)
     @test_throws ErrorException ss"foobar"b3
+    
+    
+    @test ShortString(:abcde) == "abcde"
+    @test ShortString(:abcde) isa ShortString7
+    @test ShortString15(:abcde) == "abcde"
+    @test ShortString15(:abcde) isa ShortString15
 
 
     @test ShortString7(Test.GenericString("abcde")) == "abcde"